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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering
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Date: 22 Apr 89 04:04:22 GMT
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From article <2617@buengc.BU.EDU>, by bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton):
> In article <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> jskuskin@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jeffrey Kuskin) writes:
>>A "I was just wondering" question:
>>    Why is C case-sensitive?  I suppose it allows the
> [...]
> 2.  Huminz iz not cumpooterz.  We like it that way, and we make the
> silly microchips do what WE ask.  [...]                           

But, I _don't_ like it that way.  Ask any literate human whether "Tree"
means something different than "tree" and you'll find out that most humans
aren't case sensitive most of the time.

> 5. BeCaUsE.

Most people would find this just plain annoying.
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